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Population ageing and pension reform in a small open economy with non-traded goods
Bettendorf, Leon; Heijdra, Ben J. - 2004
In this paper we study the implications of population ageing in an economy with a sizeable non-traded goods sector. To this effect a highly stylized micro-founded macro model is constructed in which the age structure of the population plays a non-trivial role. The model distinguishes separate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343315
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Demography and provisions for retirement : the pension composition, an equilibrium approach
Praag, Bernard M. S. van; Hop, J. Peter - 2018
is relevant for the present century, where birth and mortality rates in most western countries are steeply declining. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011870742
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The causal effect of retirement on mortality evidence from targeted incentives to retire early
Bloemen, Hans G.; Hochgürtel, Stefan; Zweerink, Jochem - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010191307
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Retirement flexibility and portfolio choice in general equilibrium
Adema, Yvonne; Bonenkamp, Jan; Meijdam, Lex - 2011 - This version: February 4, 2011
This paper explores the interaction between retirement flexibility and portfolio choice in an overlapping …-generations model of a closed economy. Retirement flexibility is often seen as a hedge against capital market risks which justifies more … risky asset portfolios. We show, however, that this positive relationship between risk taking and retirement flexibility is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011383196
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Intergenerational risk sharing with market liquidity risk
Dimitrov, Daniel - 2022
allocation decision for retirement, and show that illiquidity reduces the range of transferable shocks between generations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013175574
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Intergenerational sharing of unhedgeable inflation risk
Chen, Damiaan H. J.; Beetsma, Roel; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2022 - This version: November 16, 2022
We explore how members of a collective pension scheme can share inflation risks in the absence of suitable financial market instruments. Using intergenerational risk sharing arrangements, risks can be allocated better across the various participants of a collective pension scheme than would be...
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Flexible pension take-up in social security
Adema, Yvonne; Bonenkamp, Jan; Meijdam, Lex - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009784943
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Human capital formation : the importance of endogenous longevity
Galama, Titus J.; Van Kippersluis, Hans - 2022
We present a theory of human capital, with its two most essential components, health capital and, what we term, skill capital, endogenously determined within the model. Using the theory, and a calibrated version of it, we uncover and highlight an important economic mechanism driving...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172987
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HIV/AIDS, risk aversion and intertemporal choice
Lammers, Judith; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - 2008 - Rev.
time preference are not considered simultaneously. We correct for differential mortality risk, risk aversion and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011373818
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Long-term returns to local health-care spending
Cerveny, Jakub; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022
This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of heart attack patients. We relate in … with visitors and stayers with recent movers from a different region. In regions with higher health-care spending mortality …
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